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Table 12_1_2-2

2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 12_1_2.2Adult surgery patients who received appropriate timing of antibiotics,a by State, 2005 and 2007

2007

2005

State

Percent

SE

Percent

SE

Total

86.4

0.0

74.9

0.0

Alabama

86.6

0.2

75.7

0.3

Alaska

84.0

0.6

68.7

2.2

Arizona

82.9

0.2

63.2

0.5

Arkansas

86.3

0.2

74.1

0.3

California

82.7

0.1

65.5

0.2

Colorado

84.1

0.2

76.2

0.6

Connecticut

87.3

0.2

89.8

0.7

Delaware

89.3

0.4

82.6

0.5

District of Columbia

83.0

0.6

69.7

1.3

Florida

86.7

0.1

72.2

0.2

Georgia

82.6

0.2

67.9

0.3

Hawaii

85.4

0.4

59.2

1.1

Idaho

82.7

0.4

71.3

0.7

Illinois

87.2

0.1

76.1

0.2

Indiana

85.0

0.2

70.0

0.3

Iowa

87.1

0.2

80.6

0.4

Kansas

85.1

0.2

71.7

0.4

Kentucky

84.8

0.2

80.0

0.3

Louisiana

80.3

0.2

67.6

0.5

Maine

93.2

0.2

81.8

0.4

Maryland

88.1

0.2

75.7

0.2

Massachusetts

91.1

0.1

84.7

0.2

Michigan

91.2

0.1

81.3

0.2

Minnesota

88.4

0.2

74.8

0.5

Mississippi

83.2

0.2

68.2

0.3

Missouri

87.8

0.1

77.6

0.3

Montana

91.1

0.3

85.8

0.3

Nebraska

90.3

0.2

81.9

0.4

Nevada

75.8

0.4

54.6

0.8

New Hampshire

92.4

0.3

75.7

0.6

New Jersey

91.4

0.1

83.8

0.2

New Mexico

83.6

0.4

76.5

0.5

New York

87.3

0.1

68.9

0.2

North Carolina

90.4

0.1

80.2

0.2

North Dakota

85.9

0.4

77.0

0.6

Ohio

87.3

0.1

67.5

0.3

Oklahoma

88.4

0.2

83.8

0.3

Oregon

83.1

0.2

74.9

0.5

Pennsylvania

87.8

0.1

73.3

0.2

Puerto Rico

61.1

0.4

59.7

0.5

Rhode Island

88.2

0.4

86.1

0.9

South Carolina

89.7

0.2

82.1

0.2

South Dakota

92.5

0.3

85.2

0.4

Tennessee

85.3

0.2

76.7

0.3

Texas

82.6

0.1

69.9

0.2

Utah

82.3

0.3

68.5

0.5

Vermont

93.2

0.4

79.2

0.6

Virginia

87.9

0.1

78.1

0.3

Washington

87.5

0.2

76.5

0.5

West Virginia

88.2

0.2

79.4

0.3

Wisconsin

89.6

0.1

76.3

0.3

Wyoming

85.7

0.5

78.3

1.3

a Appropriate timing of antibiotics includes receiving prophylactic antibiotics within 1 hour prior to surgical incision and discontinuing the antibiotics within 24 hours after surgery end time.